TOPICS: Member for Indi, security arrangements for MPs, personal security arrangements, policing, women in public life

"Most Australians assume they already have a right to pay with cash. They don’t. There is currently no general right to pay with cash at the point of sale," Dr Webster said.

Our democracy also depends on remembering that the person we are debating is still a human being, representing their community and the interests that put them there. Photo by Jason South C/o The Age

TOPICS: Attack on Member for Indi, online comments, seeing constituents in public, managing threats, tone of political debate, Question Time

Liberals and Nationals introduced a bill to stop further Commonwealth buybacks of permanent Murray-Darling Basin water entitlements. Labor is blindly pursuing an additional 450 gigalitres and the water market is going up like a rocket.

TOPICS: Coalition amendments to UOMO legislation, temporary disaster roaming, attack on Member for Indi, mental health, underspending on regional health

TOPICS: attack on Member for Indi, managing risk, small business pressures, wages, inflation, regional health

TOPICS: Attack on the Member for Indi, how parliamentarians engage with electorates, tone of political discourse, social media

“Regional families, farmers and small businesses need mobile coverage on which they can depend, particularly during bushfires, floods and other emergencies.”